INTRODUCTION

This book is a spiritual curriculum consisting

of 21 lessons. It is separate from anything
else you might do regarding diet or exercise.
It is a retraining of your consciousness in the
area of weight.
Perhaps youve made amazing efforts to
lose weight in the pastemploying
everything from extraordinary diet plans to
almost superhuman feats of exerciseyet
have found yourself mysteriously unable to
keep the weight off permanently. While you
succeeded for a time in changing your behavior,
youve not yet experienced the deep
level of change necessary in order to truly
solve the problem.
On your own you might have changed your
conscious thinking, but you alone cannot
change your subconscious. And unless your
subconscious mind is enrolled in your
weight-loss efforts, it will find a way to reconstitute
the excess weight regardless of
what you do.
Spirit alone has the power to positively
and permanently reprogram both your conscious
and subconscious mind. The holistic
healing of any condition involves applying
internal as well as external powers, and compulsive
overeating is no different. This
course is a lesson plan in aligning your
thinking with the spiritual principles that
will set you free.
The principles that guide these lessons are
not difficult, but they are different from the
way you might normally think. The principles
are these:
1. Your body itself is completely neutral.
It causes nothing; it is completely an
effect, not a cause.
2. Neither poor diet nor lack of exercise
are the cause of your excess weight.
Mind is cause; body is effect. The
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cause of your excess weight is in your

mind.
3. The cause of your excess weight is
fear, which is a place in your mind
where love is blocked.
4. Fear expresses itself as subconscious
urges, which then express themselves
as either excessive and/ or unhealthy

eating habits and/or resistance to

proper exercise. The ultimate effect of
thisthat is, excess weightwill only
be permanently and fundamentally
healed when the fear itself is rooted
out.
The purpose of this course is to root out
your fear, and to replace it with an inestimable
love.
It might seem odd to consider that fear is
the source of your weight problem, and yet it
is. As your mind is trained to let go of its
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fear, your body will let go of its excess

pounds. For that shift in thinking from fear
to love is a miracle: the reprogramming of
your consciousness on a causal level, freeing
the level of bodily effects to transform from
dysfunction to healing. This course is not
about your relationship with food; it is about
your relationship with love. For love is your
true healer. And miracles occur naturally in
the presence of love.
Love is that which both created and sustains
you. Its both your connection to your
true reality and your alignment with the positive
flow of the universe. Remembering this
Divine truththat love is who you areis
key to your healing, for your relationship to
food is an area where your nervous system
has lost the memory of its Divine intelligence.
As you remember your own Divine
truth, the cells of your body will remember
theirs.
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The body has a natural intelligence for creating

and maintaining the perfect weight for
you as long as the mind is aligned with its
own perfection. Your perfect weight is coded
into the natural patterns of your true self, as
your perfect everything is coded into the
patterns of your true self. The real you
knows exactly how to inhabit your body in
the healthiest, happiest way, and will do so
automatically when you reestablish conscious
connection with spiritual reality. By
getting back to the truth of who you really
are, you will get to a place where all your
problems with weight have disappeared.
Reconnection to your spiritual reality is
achieved through a force called here Divine
Mind. It is a gift from God that will return

you to your sanity, whenever you choose to

call on it. Your compulsion is a place where,
in your spiritual forgetfulness, you go temporarily
insane if even for a moment just
long enough to open the bag of potato chips
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thats the trigger to your binge food mania.

Lost in this forgetfulness, you become confused
in your thinking and are unable to say
No when something truly harmful to your
well-being is posing as a supportive and loving
friend. Divine Mind is the counterforce to
this temporary insanity; when you are lost in
moments of spiritual forgetfulness, it will remind
you who you are.
The consciousness of the human race is
dominated by fear, which has coalesced in
your life in the form of a particular behavioral
pattern: compulsive overeating. In doing
this course, you will command the spirit of
fear to depart.
The power of love is perfect, creative, selforganizing,
healthy, self-healing, and abundant.
The power of fear is insane, destructive,
violent, disease producing, and lacking. It expresses
itself as an impostor self, perverting
your true nature and making you behave in a
way that is opposite of who you truly are. It
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is spiritually immature to underestimate the

power of either of these two forces. Both of
them are active, and both of them have their
eyes on you. One wishes you well, and the
other wishes you dead.
When subconscious forces lead a person
into chronic self-destructive behavior over
which their conscious mind has little or no
control, this is called an addiction. Addiction
is a system of self-generated behavior over
which a merely self-generated psychological
response system holds no sway. Addiction is
when you cant stop. When some craziness
takes over and you do or dont do whatever it
is you do that blows it every time, ruins
everything, snatches happiness from your
hands, and leaves you desperate at what your
life has become. Its life when lived at the behest
of a wicked witch who seems to have
taken over your brain and now uses it as her
control room, directing you to do the most
self-destructive things and then cackling
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with amusement as you lie writhing on the

ground in misery right afterward.
Whether or not you are a food addict is
something only you can say. Every food addict
is a compulsive overeater, but not every
compulsive eater is an addict. The principles
in this course apply to both.
The love that will free you is a love that
comes from beyond your mortal mind. It is a
Divine intercession from a thought system
beyond our own. Placing your problems in
the hands of God, the situation it represents
will be recreated. That which is imperfect
will then become perfect.
Intellectually understanding your body,
your mindbody connection, the physiology of
exercise, or the realities of food metabolism
mean little if you are addicted. In the words
of Sigmund Freud, Intelligence will be used
in the service of the neurosis. The fact that
you yourself have anything figured out
makes little or no difference to any of this.
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No matter how smart you are, or how much

work youve done on yourself, you alone
cannot outsmart the psychic force of compulsion
and addiction. If you could, you would
have done so by now. For this problem, entrenched
and pernicious as it is, you need
spiritual forces to help you. For this, you
need God.
This course is not about food but about
spiritualitythe quest for a power that is
greater than your own. It is not about your
addiction, but about a force that is more
powerful than your addiction. Our purpose is
not to analyze your darkness but to turn on a
light that, having been trapped within you, is
now ready to blaze forth.
The spirit of fear is love inverted, or your
own mental power turned against yourself.
Have you ever found yourself saying
something that you knew in your heart to be
the opposite of how you really felt? In a moment
of self-hate, your mind became so
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twisted as to convince you that you are acting

out of self-love. Im eating all these cookies
to comfort myself. Im eating all this bread
because it nourishes me emotionally. It is
not just your mind but also your body that
can go insane. Compulsion and addiction

render the life-sustaining proclivities of both

mind and body temporarily inoperative. This
is not a war that reason can win.
So ask yourself this question: Are you willing,
if even for a moment, to consider the
possibility that God can outwit your insanity?
If you feel that on your own you simply
cannot stop waging this war against yourself
a war that if unabated could eventually
kill youthen allow yourself to surrender to
a fervent hope and to feel, if even for a moment,
that the help youve prayed for has finally
arrived.
You would not be reading this course if
you had not already come to this place. Sometimes
we need to admit the darkness
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within us, and at other times we need to admit

the light. At the deepest level, it is not
your food obsession that you most need to
admit to yourself. At the deepest level, it is
the memory of your Divine light that you
most need to admit to yourself . . . the light
of God that lives within you as the gift that it
is: the solution to every problem, even this
one.
Dear God,
Please free me
from false appetites
and take away my pain.
Take from me my compulsive self,
and show me who I am.
Dear God,
Please give me a new beginning.
Unchain my heart
so I might live
a freer life at last.
Amen